Bag-fastener



(Model.)

W. ROEMER.

BAG PASTENBR. y

No. 898,542. Patented Feb. 26. 1889.

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mvENToH* WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

WILLIAM ROEMEB, OF NE\VARK, NEV JERSEY.

BAG FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,542, dated February 26, 1889.

APPlCIOD filed September '7, 1888; Serial No. 284,787. (Model.)

To all when@ t may concern:

Be it known that I, WTLLTAM RoEMER, a 1

citizen of the l'nited States, residing at Newark, in the eountyot Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The obj eet of this invention is to provide a lock-catch or fasening-slide for bag-frames, sateliels, and similar articles of a reduced cost of construction, of greater simplicity and strength, and one that can be applied readily and easily to said bag-frames; and it consists in the improved catch having the combinations and arrangements of parts substantiallyY as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

l. -\.l'erriiig to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters ot' reference indicate eerrespomflin parts in each of the several figures, Figure ,l a plan ot' a satehel emi/)racing my improvements. Fig. 2 'is a plan of a catch in detail, indicating the same in its closed or catching relation to the hook of the opposite jaw ot the i'rame. Fig. 3 is a similar plan, showing the same in disengagementwith said hook'. Fig. i is a section taken on line a' oi Fig. L", and Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 1/ ot' Fig. $3. Fig. (i is a detail side elevation ol the improved catch, and Fig. 7 is a section of the same, taken on line y. Fig. S is a detail plan ot the slide, and Fig. 9 is a detail side elevation of the same, and Fig. 'l0 is a seetional view taken on line Z. Fig. il a plan of a tace-plate. Fig. if.) is a detail side elevation of a spring which I prefer to employ. Fig. i3 .is a detail side elevation ot' a box or ease adapted to retain the spring in position, and at the same time hold down the slide in proper relation to the face-plate and hook; and Fig. lli is a modification of the device. Fig. l? is a sectional view through line .11', Fig. 1+i.

In said drawings, a indicates a suitable bag, case, sateliel, or other similar article having ordinary jaws, b, adapted to be fastened together to close the bag.

l ff, Fig. 1], indicates a face-plate, having therein a slot, c,adapted to allow the passage of a catching-tongue, d, of a catch or slide, d, to pass downwardly therethrough toward the (3o-operating tongue e, (indicated in outline in Figs. 2 and and shown in side elevation in Fig. 6,) the said catching-tongue passing down through the upper or outer jaw, b, of the frame, and thus engages the said tongue e, lying thereunder, in any suitable manner. The said faceplate c is secured upon the upper face of the said jaw h by means of the fastening-lugs f, Fig. i3, of the box d2, the said lugs extending downward from the lower edge of said box and passing through suitable perforations in the face-plate and through suitable perforations in the bag-frame l), the said lugs being clinched on the underside of the said jaw in any suitable way to hold the parts together, as will be understood.

ihe box or ease di is preferably an oblong piece ot sheet meta-l pressed or shaped to form a spring-chamber, di", Fi i, 5, and 7, adapted to hold the spring /i in place, as indicated. The lower lateralV edges of sa id box are notched, as at.v d", Fig. 1li, to allow of a longitudinal movement of the sliding' catch, whereby the catching-tongue otl -said slide is thrown from its fastening to its unfastening position. The said slide (shown more clearly in Figs. S, 9, and in) eonsisis of a cross-bar, i, adapted to pass through the notch d in the box', at the ends olf which are arranged finger-pieces z", which lie against the outer side of the box di, as ilnlicated in 'liigs 2, 3, (i, and 7.

At the center of the cross-bar, preferably formed integral therewith, is the catchingtongue (7, above referred to, and on the upper side ot the cross-bar are formed inclines f2, adapted to provide suitable bearings for the spring 7i, which latter is bent to form cooperating inelin es h', which bear on the crossbar and hohl the same in its fastened or unfastened position.

By moving the slide from one side of the angle in the spring to the other the catchingtongue il will be brought into fastening engagement with the hook e or berel eased therefrom, as will be understood.

I do not wish to be understood as limit-ing myselt' to the exact arrangement of parts shown, as various eh anges may be made witb- IOO out departing from the spirit of the invention-eas, for example, a spiral spring may be employed in lieu of the one iirst described, as indicated in Fig. 14; but the iiat spring having opposite inclines forming an angle is the one preferred.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new isl. The improved satchel-catch combininga faceplate adapted to be secured to the frame of the bag or Satchel, a box secured on said face-plate and containing a spring, and a slide arranged between the face-plate and box and free to be thrown by the fingers from an uncatching to a catching position, and having a catching-tongue adapte-d to engage with a` co-operating catch on the bag-frame, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination, a face-plate having a slot, c', for the catching-tongue to Work in and perforations g for fastening-lugs, a box, d2, containing a spring and having said fasteningl-u'gs arranged to pass through said perforations, and having on the under side a notch, d4, adapted to receive and allow a slide to Work therein, and said slide consisting of a crossbar arranged in the said notch, a catchingtongue extendin g through the slot c to engage with a co-operating catch, and finger-pieces arranged at the ends of the crossbar on the bined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In combination, a box forming a spring chamber, cl3, and having notches to receive a slide, a slide arranged in said notches and having a catching-tongue to engage a co-operating catch of the bag-fraine, said slide having iinger-peces' or parts lying on the opposite sides of said box, and a spring arranged in said box and bearing on said slide, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of September, 1888.

WILLIAM RoEMER.'

Vitnesses:

CHARLES' H. PELL, E. L. SHERMAN. 

